Sending a Keynote file to your teacher

You’ve created a Keynote presentation, and need to get it to your teacher in a way that can be viewed on their laptop [which does NOT have Keynote installed]. Here is how to make sure your presentation can be viewed [and thus graded!]. Click any picture below to see a bigger version.

On your iPad, open up the presentation.

Click the “Share” icon – square with arrow coming out of it.

If you want to email the file, see #4 below. If you want to upload a PDF or Powerpoint file to Drive from your keynote presentation, see #5 below.

Select “Send a Copy”

Pick a file format – PDF or PowerPoint. Ask your Teacher if you don’t know which to use.

Pick a file format – PDF or PowerPoint. Ask your Teacher if you don’t know which to use.

Select “Open in Drive”.

Drive will open, and ask “Would you like to upload filename.pptx to My Drive?”

YES, you do!

After the file has uploaded you can email it, share it with your teacher, view it online, etc.

What’s this all about? [Some details]

The principle here is dealing with file formats. In this case the students are creating files that the teacher needs to read, but that app is not available for the teacher’s computer [Keynote is a Mac only app, and most MDS teachers have Windows machines].

So how do you deal with the situation where you are creating in one app and need to open it in another?

Here’s your
One Word Explanation:EXPORT

Find a file format that both sides of the equation can use. Export the file from your app, and the recipient can open it in the app of their choice.

Some file types that commonly transfer nicely include

Word processing: rtf, doc, docx

Graphics: jpg, png

Spreadsheet: csv, xls

Video: trickier, because it involves not only the “container” [mp4, mov, avi, wmv, m4a] but also the “codec” [how the video was prepared]. Export the same file a few different ways and see which one works.

Text & Graphics: PDF

In the list above, you are walked through the steps of taking a keynote presentation on an iPad, exporting it as either a PDF or PPTX [Powerpoint] file, then uploading it to Drive. The teacher can then open the file up in a PDF reader or Powerpoint.